Moselle, France · 2013-08-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
On August 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, two people are intrigued by the presence above a tree of a blinking orange ball that then rises into the clear sky and will be hidden by a neighboring building. No particular noise is heard. Only one testimony is collected. The witness's description is entirely consistent with the observation of a Thai lantern, fairly common on summer nights in the city: an orange ball crossing the sky from West to East in a continuous manner, and dimming in brightness at the end. But the wind direction, from the North, therefore perpendicular to the observed path, does not allow this hypothesis to be validated. The wind is very weak (1 to 4 km/h), so one might think of a local breeze oriented differently. Lacking very local meteorological information, this case is classified as "C" due to lack of information.
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